Judge Emmet Sullivan has asked the full DC Court of Appeals to reconsider the three-judge ruling that he must dismiss the Michael Flynn case immediately.

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Judge Emmet Sullivan has asked the full DC Court of Appeals to reconsider the three-judge ruling that he must dismiss the Michael Flynn case immediately.
Four environmental groups lost their bid to resurrect legal challenges to federal oil and gas lease sales on 80,000 acres in the Alaska National Petroleum
A federal appeals court blocked effort to remove the Yellowstone Grizzly Bears from the federal list of endangered species without first a review of how
A federal judge in Washington, DC, struck down the Trump administration policy that barred Central American migrants from seeking asylum if they had not first
A federal appeals court has upheld Maryland’s ban on “bump stocks” and other similar devices that allow guns to fire like an automatic weapon. The
President Trump’s transfer of $2.5 billion in military funds to pay for his border wall construction was illegal, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. The
It may look as though former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s legal troubles ended for his lying to the FBI about blabbing to Russians when
Attorney General William Barr said Sunday that he doesn’t believe systemic racism exists in US police agencies. “I think there’s racism in the United States
Jails and prisons cannot shift the cost of tracking the cash taken from arrestees onto the backs of those arrested without a potential violation of
The House of Representatives has a right to see secret grand jury material gathered in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in
A federal appeals court has blocked enforcement of the Trump administration rule that bans asylum for anyone who passes through another country before getting to
A federal appeals court expanded the ability of religious schools to block labor union representation on constitutional religious freedom grounds. A divided District of Columbia
The murder conviction of two Mexican Los Zetas hit squad members in the ambush shooting death of a federal agent was overturned Tuesday by a
For want of setting a parking brake, a mining equipment company made a federal case of a paltry $116 fine, and Wednesday a federal appeals
State and federal regulators can no longer get away with do-nothing, foot-dragging on setting temperature standards for rivers to protect salmon and steelhead in the
With the US Senate’s confirmation of President Trump’s ninth judge to the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday it gives the 29-judge court a
A federal appeals court, by a vote of the full court, has revived an environmental challenge to a natural gas pipeline that would run from
A federal appeals panel showed little sympathy Monday for the Trump administration’s rule that bars asylum to anyone who enters the US through Mexico if
Southern California tech workers won reinstatement of a lawsuit challenging a federal rule that allows immigrants who are H-1B visa-holders to seek jobs with Southern
It is not an illegal search when the FBI uses wireless-tracking software to detect the address of a wireless device that is downloading child porn
McDonald’s Corp. can’t be held liable for labor law violations by its various franchise owners, a federal appeals court held Tuesday. The 9th US Circuit
The federal appeals court in San Francisco takes up two significant immigrant appeals Tuesday; whether aliens seeking asylum must come through a legal port of
A federal appeals court reinstated the retaliatory firing lawsuit by former Howard University researcher who said she was dismissed after objecting to the school’s inhumane
A federal appeals court revived the lawsuit of a Brooklyn man, and US citizen, who was wrongly held in immigration detention for four days. Luis
A federal appeals court has reversed a North Carolina death sentence based on a trial juror’s improper consultation with her pastor about whether she could
Sometimes the little guy does win. The January five-cent rate hike for a first-class stamp has been invalidated by a federal appeals court, based on
Montanans can expect to get waves of robocalls for the 2020 election because the state law regulating them bars automated calls promoting a political campaign
A decades-long legal fight by relatives of author John Steinbeck over the rights to his works “has to end” a federal appeals court said in
Professional networking website LinkedIn cannot stop a data mining company from scraping LinkedIn’s public profiles for the personal information of the site’s 500 million users,
A federal appeals court blocked a 2017 Indiana law that allowed local county election officials to kick voters off the roles immediately without cause. The
A Los Angeles police officer is immune from civil suit over his shooting of a teen rapping before school with three friends, but the officer
A federal appeals court broadened immigrant protection against speedy deportation by recognizing a right to hire their own lawyer when pursuing a fear of torture
A federal appeals court will not allow immigration authorities to enforce President Trump’s ban on asylum-seekers from entering the US, but has limited the order
Detaining migrant children without adequate food or water, soap or toothbrushes, and forcing them to sleep on a cold cement floor with a foil blanket
Football fans may be a step closer to expanded access to NFL games without having to buy bundled game packages. The 9th US Circuit Court
In the past year ending June 29, the Trump administration has taken nearly 1,000 children – including babies and toddlers, from parents based on dubious
A federal appeals court rejected the challenge by environmental groups Monday to block expanded mining on an open pit coal mine located on the Navajo
The Montana State Prison system must face constitutional claims by mental health advocates that its policies and practices create “horrific” treatment of severely mentally ill
A federal appeals court Friday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing new rules allowing employer exemptions from requirements to provide birth control coverage for women.
In a split decision, a federal appeals panel said Friday the Trump administration was within its constitutional rights to withhold community policing grants for sanctuary
Things did not go well Thursday for students and parents in an Oregon high school seeking to overturn a policy that allows transgender students to
It’s a huge legal victory for President Trump. A federal appeals court ordered thrown out the lawsuit claiming that Trump violated the Constitution by profiting
In documents unsealed Tuesday, the government says it will not call Michael Flynn as a witness in the trial of Bijan Rafiekian and Kamil Alptekin
A federal appeals court split sharply over whether a Catholic school could fire a fifth-grade teacher after she told them she had breast cancer and
A project to thin and burn trees across 2,700 acres of the Tahoe National Forest to address an outbreak of bark beetles was approved by
In a major setback for women’s health-care providers, a federal appeals court allowed to take effect a family planning “gag rule” that prevents doctors and
An incredulous panel of appeals judges asked a government lawyer if she was not really arguing that it was “safe and sanitary” to make detained
A federal appeals court has upheld the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rule to thwart “pay-to-play” activity in the public pension market, defeating a challenge by
In the category of better late than never, a federal appeals court upheld a freeze of all the assets of a company that claimed to
Claims that Led Zeppelin copied portions of its 1971 hit “Stairway to Heaven” will be played in an even larger court venue with the 9th